Am 21.05.2011 um 10:15 schrieb R. Ermers: > Dear all, > > I have some fragments of Arabic in my dutch context document (mkiv). I tried > the environment ara-sty on the wiki, but Context halts at > \setcharactermirroring[1] > > Then I found in an e-mail on the internet the suggestion to give up on > setcharactermirroring and use instead these instructions: > > %\setupdirections[bidi=global] or > \setupdirections[bidi=local] > > I replaced charactermirroring by \setupdirections[bidi=local] but there seems > to be a problem with that too. > > The environment ara-sty apparently interferes with the section headings in my > document anyway, perhaps because it is designed for documents whose > mainlanguage is Arabic. I found elaborate suggestions to typeset a 'hello' > document in Arabic, but my document contains mixed text. (When I uncomment > ara-sty, the document is typeset normally.) > > Note that I have been typesetting Arabic texts in Latex (starting with > ArabTeX) and xelatex (unicode) for years now, but I expected that > typesetting Arabic in Context / Luatex is more complicated. > > Thus I have two questions: > > 1. which module should I load or which commands should I add to the preambule > for typesetting Arabic,
You can use the simplefonts module to set different fonts for your main text and the arabic parts: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella] \setmainfontfallback[Arabic Typesetting Sample][features=arabic,range=arabic] \starttext \setupdirections[bidi=on] \input knuth\par عقل \stoptext Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________